How big is SMF's MySQL Database?

darcmarc · April 08, 2005, 06:20:48 PM

I was wondering how big the database is for these forums... It must be huge...

[Unknown] · April 08, 2005, 06:30:39 PM

Well, it's only 363 megabytes... it can still fit on a CD.

-[Unknown]

darcmarc · April 08, 2005, 06:31:38 PM

Holy cow. My database Size is: 6.32 Mb...

Thats amazing!

Trekkie101 · April 09, 2005, 07:39:23 AM

LOL, i find the fact of walking around with simple machines on a CD rather amusing.

Killer Possum · April 09, 2005, 01:25:03 PM

hehe yeah, I've always thought about stuff like that. For example, I can walk around with my entire website on my portable 256mb USB Flash Drive. I also thought it would be kinda cool to run a website off of it lol

Trekkie101 · April 09, 2005, 01:50:28 PM

I wonder how small a server could be, anyone ever tried to run a server on a palm top or maybe a symbian phone.

jaws · April 09, 2005, 02:46:34 PM

Quote from: Trekkie101 on April 09, 2005, 01:50:28 PM
I wonder how small a server could be, anyone ever tried to run a server on a palm top or maybe a symbian phone.

You could run an LFS server on a USB flash card perhaps...if it only ran apache and perhaps mysql...

LFS=Linux From Scratch

b0b · April 10, 2005, 03:03:16 AM

Who hosts this site anyway?

[Unknown] · April 10, 2005, 03:05:26 AM

We're hosted on a dedicated server, administrated primarily by Lewis Media. However, they're no longer offering hosting to other clients... as far as I know.

-[Unknown]

Joseph · April 13, 2005, 03:47:59 PM

That's the case yes - we're hosting/administering the dedicated server, and no longer accepting new hosting clients.

Cerberus · April 17, 2005, 09:35:40 AM

Quote from: Trekkie101 on April 09, 2005, 01:50:28 PM
I wonder how small a server could be, anyone ever tried to run a server on a palm top or maybe a symbian phone.

You can run apache on a Pocket PC PDA

dtm.exe · April 18, 2005, 10:33:27 PM

Quote from: [Unknown] on April 08, 2005, 06:30:39 PM
Well, it's only 363 megabytes... it can still fit on a CD.

-[Unknown]

WOW! That is one HUGE database!

-Dan The Man

Ben_S · April 21, 2005, 08:39:32 AM

Quote from: OIDanTheManIO on April 18, 2005, 10:33:27 PM
WOW! That is one HUGE database!

Thats a tiddler, phpMyAdmin reports mine as being 1.0 GB.

Trekkie101 · April 21, 2005, 09:46:00 AM

Really for such an un-busy site?

dtm.exe · April 21, 2005, 11:56:15 PM

Quote from: Trekkie101 on April 21, 2005, 09:46:00 AM
Really for such an un-busy site?

He may not have his mySQL database gzipped though.

-Dan The Man

BigMoneyJim3 · May 02, 2005, 12:58:42 AM

Judging by post count I figure at least 250Mb of that is [Unkown]'s.

I once hosted a dialup BBS from two 120k floppies on a 1MHz Apple //e...

I just migrated to SMF with 1300 users and 45,000 posts in 2600 topics and am at 40Mb. The old software didn't have any sort of attatchment or avatar uploads, so that's all text.

Cool Surfer · May 09, 2005, 08:23:06 AM

Quote from: [Unknown] on April 08, 2005, 06:30:39 PM
Well, it's only 363 megabytes... it can still fit on a CD.

-[Unknown]

Is this the gzipped size or unzipped size ?

[Unknown] · May 09, 2005, 05:03:16 PM

That's the size of the actual data and indexes, not of a backup.

-[Unknown]

dtm.exe · May 09, 2005, 05:43:00 PM

Quote from: [Unknown] on May 09, 2005, 05:03:16 PM
That's the size of the actual data and indexes, not of a backup.

-[Unknown]

Oh, so how big is the actual backup itself (gzipped)?

-Dan The Man

peterstannard · May 10, 2005, 12:19:08 PM

Quote from: Trekkie101 on April 21, 2005, 09:46:00 AM
Really for such an un-busy site?

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How big is SMF's MySQL Database?

jaws

BigMoneyJim3